stiglitz

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Aug 23 18:53:26 PDT 2001


Christine Petersen wrote:
>
> IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
>
> How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential adviser
> to the wrong side of the barricades
>
> By Gregory Palast
>
> [clip]
>
> And the US government knew it, charges Stiglitz, at least in the case of
> the biggest privatisation of all, the 1995 Russian sell-off. 'The US
> Treasury view was: "This was great, as we wanted Yeltsin re-elected. We
> DON'T CARE if it's a corrupt election.." '
> [clip]

Are there figures available on the number of "excess deaths" in the fSU during the last 10 years?

Carrol



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